ArchiveBox is evolving: the future of self-hosted internet archives

You really should add timestamping to ArchiveBox. The easiest way to do that would be via my OpenTimestamps protocol, https://opentimestamps.org It's open source and free to use, and uses Bitcoin for the actual timestamps. Users of it do not need to make Bitcoin transactions themselves as a set of community calendar servers do that for you. You also don't need a Bitcoin node to create an OTS timestamp, and you can validate an OTS timestamp without a Bitcoin node as well by trusting someone else to do that for you.

The big thing that ArchiveBox can't do, and the Internet Archive can, is attest to the accuracy of the archive. Being at least able to prove that the archive was created in the past, prior to there being a reason to tamper it, is the best we can realistically do with current cryptography. So it'd be really good if support for timestamping was added.

IIUC ArchiveBox is written in Python; OTS has a Python library that should work fine for you: https://github.com/opentimestamps/python-opentimestamps

We're going to add TLSNotary support for real cryptographic signing, see my comments below :)

Timestamping is also on my roadmap, definitely as a plugin (and likely paid) as it's more corporate users that really need it. We need to keep some of the really advanced attestation features paid to be able to support the rest of the business.

Thanks for the box!

Any examples of other possible really advanced features that might go for-pay?

Is there any chance you will make current free features for-pay? That'd be rather off-putting for me as a home user.

No, everything currently free will stay free.

The paid stuff currently is:

- per-user permissions & groups

- audit logging

- auto CAPTCHA solving

- burner credential management for FB/Insta/Twitter/etc. w/ auto phone based account verification ability

- custom JS scripts for expanding comments, hiding pop ups, etc.

- managed hosting + support

Some of this stuff ^ is going to become free in upcoming releases, some will stay paid. What I decide to make free is mostly based on abuse potential and legal ramifications, I'd rather have a say in how the risky stuff is used so that it doesn't become a tool weaponized for botting.